Reports: STL Sets 2013 Budget at 59.9 Million Euros
The U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set to try ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's suspected assassins, has set its annual budget for 2013 at 59.9 million euros, al-Joumhouria daily quoted well informed sources as saying on Wednesday.
The STL, which is headquartered in the Dutch town of Leidschendam, informed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the budget.
The sources pointed out on condition of anonymity that Ban is expected to inform the Lebanese government, in a message through the Lebanese mission in NY, of the due amount to finance its share that stands at 49 percent of funding the STL.
The Lebanese government has paid Lebanon’s 2012 share which amounted to 26,927,270 euros.
Lebanon’s 2011 contribution for the tribunal was paid from the budget of the state-run Higher Relief Council, which operates under the prime minister’s office. While the 2010 share was donated by Lebanese banks.
The STL was established in 2007 to try the perpetrators of Hariri's 2005 assassination.
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